Archaeology Notes

Event ID 711699

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT18NW 1 1139 8751 to 1136 8751.

(NT 1136 8751) Chapel Well (NAT)

(NT 1139 8751) Ruin (NAT)

OS 6" map (1854)

The Chapel of St John was presumably intended for the use of the proprietor of Garvock and his dependents. There was also a manse and a glebe connected with it, part of the land there being still styled in the dispositions to the property, "The Gleib of St John's Chapel" or "St John's Gleib". It is mentioned in 1558. A well known as "Chapel Well" stood near the site.

P Chalmers 1844

'A small cottage on the farm of Touch Mains. On the S side is a well which is traditionally said to have belonged to a Chapel which was here but of which no remains can now be seen.'

Name Book 1856

St John's Chapel, Garvock-Terra: It is not known by whom or when this chapel was founded. It is mentioned in some old deeds which refer to 1390. Its site is still to be traced at Chapel Well, 1 1/4 mls E of Dunfermline. (The "Ruin" published on OS 6" 1854 may possibly represent remains of the chapel.)

E Henderson 1879

The site of the chapel and well is now covered by a housing estate. No further information.

Visited OS (DWR) 18 February 1974

A farmstead comprising one unroofed building, which is annotated as a Ruin, one roofed long building and one enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Fife and Kinross 1856, sheet 34), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1990).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 5 August 1999